1 "*Many times they have attacked me from my youth up,"

Let Israel say,

2 "*Many times they have attacked me from my youth up;

Yet they have not prevailed against me.

3 "The plowers plowed upon my back;

They lengthened their furrows."

4 The Lord is righteous;

He has cut up the ropes of the wicked.

5 May all who hate Zion

Be put to shame and turned backward;

6 May they be like grass upon the housetops,

Which withers before it *grows up;

7 With which the harvester does not fill his *hand,

Or the binder of sheaves his *arms;

8 Nor do those who pass by say,

"The blessing of the Lord be upon you;

We bless you in the name of the Lord."